Manhattan Beach Athletic Foundation
Summary Procedures of Voluntary (Random) Urine Testing Program
The Manhattan Beach Athletic Foundation has implemented the following guidelines for the MBAF Voluntary Urine Testing Program. Note that the program will be made available to all students (and their parents) who participate in interscholastic athletics at Mira Costa High School.
- Students and parents will be provided with a participation/non-participation form. Students and parents are asked to return the form by mailing it directly to the outside drug testing laboratory;
- Names of students volunteering to be tested will be placed in a computerized lottery system generated and maintained by the outside testing company; those names will not be made available to the Manhattan Beach Unified School District, Mira Costa High School or individual coaches or teachers;
- A representative of the outside testing company will randomly select names throughout the school year for voluntary – random – drug testing;
- A site at Mira Costa High School will be provided for urine specimen collection;
- Students will provide the specimen in private;
- The specimen will be transported to the laboratory following standard “Chain of Custody” procedures;
- Students will be tested on the assigned date to assure accuracy. Parents will be notified by the outside testing company if a student chooses not to be tested;
- Results of the test will be available within forty-eight hours.
Negative Result
Notification of a negative test will be mailed home. MIRA COSTA HIGH SCHOOL, COACHES OR ADMINISTRATORS WILL NOT BE CONTACTED WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
Positive Result
Notification of a positive result will be made by a representative from the outside testing company; this will occur after the specimen has been sent to the lab for secondary testing to confirm the result. NO CONTACT WILL BE MADE WITH MIRA COSTA HGH SCHOOL, COACHES OR ADMINISTRATION. The outside testing laboratory will make available information for possible follow-up. Such information will be approved by Rocky Wilson, the Substance Abuse Prevention and Education Task Force and/or the District’s Medical Advisory Board. Students and parents will be encouraged to utilize the resources identified by the MBUSD Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention and Education.
- ALL RESULTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL. PARENTS AND STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN THE ONLY COPY OF THE RESULTS WITH STUDENT’S NAME ATTACHED.
- Students participating in the program will remain in the testing program throughout the school year. Tests will be random, and there is no guarantee that every student will be tested. Further, it is possible that certain students may be tested more than once. Tests will be random, and every participating student will be included in each random test selection;
- Participants will be asked to pay a $40 fee to cover the cost of the program during the school year. Scholarships will be available.
- NO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, COACHES, OR REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MANHATTAN BEACH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION WILL HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR TEST RESULTS. ALL RESULTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL.
DRUGS SCREENED AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
Our outside drug testing laboratory offers a urine screen specifically configured for abstinence compliance for the most common drugs of abuse including marijuana, cocaine and PCP. The purpose is to offer clinicians and or drug abuse programs a broad and inexpensive means of monitoring for abstinence. Drug classes are detected by enzyme-immunoassay (EMIT). Radio-immunoassay (RIA) or Gas Chromatography (GC) and reported as “positive” or “non-detected.” The amphetamine class is automatically tested for amphetamine and/or methamphetamine. This separation is offered to assure that only potentially abused substances will be reported as “positive,” thus eliminating over the counter medications such as phenylpropanolamine (ephedrine). Confirmation is by an alternative detection method (GC, GC/MS, etc) for forensic purposes. The specimen requirement is 25 ml urine.
The following drug classes to be analyzed and the general time frames within which an individual might be expected to produce a positive sample following drug ingestion follow:
- Amphetamines (Speed, Uppers) (3-5 days)
- Benzodiasepines (Valium and Xanax)
- Ethanol (Alcohol) (1-2 days)
- Phencyclidine (PCP, Angel Dust) (7-10 days)
- Barbituates (Downers) (3-5 days)
- Cocaine (2-5 days)
- Opiates (Heroin, Oxycotin, Vicodin) (2-4 days)
- Marijuana (15-45 days)
Positive and negative results are defined rather than absolute. A sample reported as positive contains the indicated drug at or above the detection level for that drug. A negative sample contains no drug or contains a drug below the detection level.
A positive result for a drug means that the individual providing the sample ingested the drug at some point in time prior to sample collection. There are several parameters that a positive result cannot resolve including:
- The amount of drug ingested;
- The exact time of ingestion;
- The mode of ingestion;
- The frequency of ingestion;
- The purity of drug ingested;
- Whether ingestion was deliberate, accidental, unknowing or legitimate.